TY - JOUR AU - Jensen, Søren PY - 2012/10/10 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Fra apokalyptik til science fiction. Jakob Balling in memoriam JF - Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift JA - DTT VL - 75 IS - 3 SE - Artikler DO - 10.7146/dtt.v75i3.105582 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/dtt/article/view/105582 SP - 170-186 AB - <p>In his book Poeterne som kirkelærere (The Poets as Theologians)<br />Jakob Balling compares Dante’s Divine Comedy with Milton’s<br />Paradise Lost. He discusses similarities and differences between the two<br />poems and places them in a literary tradition that combines theology<br />and poetry, a relationship that has had a decisive influence on the development of literature in Europe. The present article expands this perspective both backwards and forwards in time by including a discussion<br />of the interrelationship between fi ction and religious message in Jewish<br />apocalyptic, using the Apocalypse of Abraham and C.S. Lewis’ modern<br />science fiction novel Out of the Silent Planet as examples. The article’s<br />discussion of the relationship between theology and fi ction raises the<br />question of the apocalyptic as genre. Moreover, the demonstration of<br />the fi ctional tendency in the apocalyptic is used to support and supplement<br />the traditional description of genre.</p> ER -